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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Edwin Morgan Scottish poet, The Scots Makar, died of pneumonia , he was 90,.

Edwin George Morgan was a Scottish poet and translator who was associated with the Scottish Renaissance died of  pneumonia , he was 90. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. In 2004, he was named as the first Scottish national poet: The Scots Makar.



(27 April 1920 – 17 August 2010)


Biography

Morgan was born in Glasgow and grew up in Rutherglen. His parents were Presbyterians. As a child he was not surrounded by books, nor did he have any literary acquaintances and schoolmates labelled him a swot. He convinced his parents to finance his membership of several book clubs in Glasgow. The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) was a "revelation" to him, he later said.[1]
Morgan entered the University of Glasgow in 1937. It was at university that he studied French and Russian, while self-educating in "a good bit of Italian and German" as well.[1] After interrupting his studies to serve in World War II as a non-combatant conscientious objector with the Royal Army Medical Corps, Morgan graduated in 1947 and became a lecturer at the University. He worked there until his retirement in 1980.
Morgan came out as gay in Nothing Not Giving Messages: Reflections on his Work and Life (1990), but explored his sexuality in many previous works.[3] He had written many famous love poems, among them "Strawberries" and "The Unspoken", in which the love object was not gendered; this was partly because of legal problems at the time but also out of a desire to universalise them, as he made clear in an interview with Marshall Walker available from Carcanet Press.
At the opening of the Glasgow LGBT Centre in 1995, he read a poem he had written for the occasion, and presented it to the Centre as a gift.
In 2002 he became the patron of Our Story Scotland. At the Opening of the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh on 9 October 2004, Liz Lochhead read a poem written especially for the occasion by Morgan, titled Poem for the Opening of the Scottish Parliament.
Near the end of his life, Morgan reached a new audience after collaborating with the Scottish band Idlewild on their album The Remote Part. In the closing moments of the album's final track "In Remote Part/ Scottish Fiction", he recites a poem, "Scottish Fiction", written specifically for the song. In 2007, Morgan contributed two poems to the compilation Ballads of the Book for which a range of Scottish writers created poems to be made into songs by Scottish musicians. Morgan's songs "The Good Years" and "The Weight of Years" were performed by Karine Polwart and Idlewild respectively. His work also influenced the 'Sonnets from Scotland' series by landscape photographer Alex Boyd.[4]
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney "[paid] formal homage" during a 2005 visit.[5]
In later life he was cared for at a residential home as his illness worsened, though he published a collection in April 2010 titled Dreams and Other Nightmares, months before his death[6] to mark his 90th birthday.[5] At times he suffered pain.[6] Up until his death, he was the last survivor of the canonical 'Big Seven' (the others being Hugh MacDiarmid, Robert Garioch, Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown, and Sorley MacLean).
Wikinews has related news: Scottish poet Edwin Morgan dies at age 90
On 17 August 2010, Edwin Morgan died of pneumonia in Glasgow, Scotland, at the age of 90 years.[2][7] The Scottish Poetry Library made the announcement in the morning.[5] Tributes came from, among others, politicians Alex Salmond and Iain Gray, as well as Carol Ann Duffy, the UK's Poet Laureate.[8]

Works and publications

  • Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English, Hand and Flower Press, 1952
  • The Vision of Cathkin Braes and Other Poems, William MacLellan, 1952
  • The Cape of Good Hope (limited edition), Pound Press, 1955
  • Poems from Eugenio Montale (translator), School of Art, University of Reading, 1959
  • Sovpoems: Brecht, Neruda, Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Mayakovsky, Martynov, Yevtushenko (translator) Migrant Press, 1961
  • Collins Albatross Book of Longer Poems (editor) Collins, 1963
  • Starryveldt Eugen Gomringer Press, 1965
  • Emergent Poems Hansjörg Mayer, 1967
  • Gnomes Akros publications, 1968
  • The Second Life Edinburgh University Press, 1968
  • Selected Poems of Sándor Weöres and Selected Poems of Ferenc Juhász (translator and introduction for Sándor Weöres) Penguin, 1970
  • The Horseman's Word: Concrete Poems Akros, 1970
  • Twelve Songs Castlelaw Press, 1970
  • Glasgow Sonnets Castlelaw Press, 1972
  • Instamatic Poems Ian McKelvie, 1972
  • Wi the haill voice: 25 poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky (translator and glossary) Carcanet, 1972
  • From Glasgow to Saturn Carcanet, 1973
  • Nuspeak8: Being a Visual Poem by Edwin Morgan Scottish Arts Council, 1973
  • The Whittrick: a Poem in Eight Dialogues Akros, 1973
  • Essays Carcanet, 1974
  • Fifty Renascence Love-Poems (translator) Whiteknights Press, 1975
  • Rites of Passage (translator) Carcanet Press, 1976
  • Edwin Morgan: an interview by Marshall Walker Akros, 1977
  • The New Divan Carcanet Press, 1977
  • Selected poems by August Graf von Platen-Hallermünde (translator) Castlelaw Press, 1978
  • Star Gate: Science Fiction Poems Third Eye Centre, 1979
  • Scottish Satirical Verse (compiler) Carcanet, 1980
  • Grendel Mariscat, 1982
  • Poems of Thirty Years Carcanet Press, 1982
  • The Apple-Tree (modern version of a medieval Dutch play) Third Eye Centre, 1982
  • Grafts Mariscat, 1983
  • Sonnets from Scotland Mariscat, 1984
  • Selected Poems Carcanet Press, 1985
  • From the Video Box Mariscat, 1986
  • Newspoems Wacy, 1987
  • Tales from Limerick Zoo (illustrated by David Neilson) Mariscat, 1988
  • Themes on a Variation Carcanet Press, 1988
  • Collected Poems (republished 1996 with index) Carcanet Press, 1990
  • Crossing the Border: Essays on Scottish Literature Carcanet Press, 1990
  • Nothing Not Giving Messages: Reflections on his Work and Life (edited by Hamish Whyte) Polygon, 1990
  • Hold Hands Among the Atoms: 70 Poems Mariscat, 1991
  • Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac: A New Verse Translation (translator) Carcanet Press, 1992
  • Fragments by József Attila (translator) Morning Star Publications, 1992
  • MacCaig, Morgan, Lochhead: Three Scottish Poets (edited and introduced by Roderick Watson) Canongate, 1992
  • Cecilia Vicuña:PALABRARmas/WURDWAPPINschaw Morning Star Publications, 1994
  • Sweeping Out the Dark Carcanet Press, 1994
  • Long Poems – But How Long? (W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture) University of Wales, Swansea, 1995
  • Collected Translations Carcanet Press, 1996
  • St. Columba: The Maker on High (translator) Mariscat, 1997
  • Virtual and Other Realities Carcanet Press, 1997
  • Chistopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus (a new version) Canongate, 1999
  • Demon Mariscat, 1999
  • A.D.: A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus Carcanet, 2000
  • Jean Racine: Phaedra (translation of Phèdre) Carcanet Press, 2000 (Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize)
  • New Selected Poems Carcanet Press, 2000
  • Attila József: Sixty Poems (translator) Mariscat, 2001
  • Cathures Carcanet Press, 2002
  • Love and a Life: 50 Poems by Edwin Morgan Mariscat, 2003
  • The Battle of Bannockburn (translator) SPL in association with Akros and Mariscat, 2004
  • Tales from Baron Munchausen Mariscat, 2005
  • The Play of Gilgamesh Carcanet Press, 2005
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rillie Enitharmon, 2006
  • A Book of Lives Carcanet Press, 2007

Poetry

Morgan has worked in a wide range of forms and styles, from the sonnet to concrete poetry. His Collected Poems appeared in 1990. He has also translated from a wide range of languages, including Russian, Hungarian, French, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Old English (Beowulf). Many of these are collected in Rites of Passage. Selected Translations (1976).[9]. His 1952 translation of Beowulf has since become a standard translation in America.[6]
Morgan is also known to be influenced by the American beat poets, with their simple, accessible ideas and language being prominent features in his work.
In 1968 Morgan wrote a poem entitled Starlings In George Square. This poem could be read as a comment on society's reluctance to accept the integration of different races. Other people have also considered it to be about the Russian Revolution in which "Starling" could be a reference to "Stalin".
Other notable poems include:
  • The Death of Marilyn Monroe (1962) – an outpouring of emotion after the loss of one of the world's most talented women.
  • The Billy Boys (1968) – flashback of the gang warfare in Glasgow led by Billy Fullerton in the Thirties.
  • Glasgow 5 March 1971 – robbery by two youths by pushing an unsuspecting couple through a shop window on Sauchiehall Street
  • In the Snackbar – concise description of an encounter with a disabled pensioner in a Glasgow restaurant.
  • A Good Year for Death (26 September 1977) – a description of five famous people from the world of popular culture who died in 1977
  • Poem for the Opening of the Scottish Parliament – which was read by Liz Lochhead at the opening ceremony because he was too ill. (9 October 2004)

Awards

Morgan received several honorary degrees, was bestowed with an OBE in 1982 and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2007 for A Book of Lives.[5]
Awards listed on the British Council Contemporary Writers website.[10]

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Natalie Nevins American singer (The Lawrence Welk Show), died from complications from hip surgery she was , 85,


Natalie Nevins  was an American singer who appeared on television's The Lawrence Welk Show from 1965 to 1969  died from complications from hip surgery she was , 85,.



 (May 15, 1925 – August 23, 2010)







Early life

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nevins began singing when she was five and later took flute and piano lessons. She graduated from Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls in Hunting Park and later attended Chestnut Hill College and the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Singing career

In 1950, she had her own television program on WCAU titled Notes From Natalie. Two years later, she was asked by Ed Sullivan to appear on his show after meeting him at a benefit in Philadelphia.[1]
In 1965, she was hired by Lawrence Welk as a vocalist on his weekly television program, where her pitch perfect singing voice earned Natalie nationwide fans and admirers. In addition to solo numbers, she sang in duets with Jimmy Roberts and Joe Feeney plus also recorded a solo album titled Natalie Nevins Sings I Believe & Other Inspirational Songs which was released by Ranwood Records in 1968.[2]
She left the Welk organization in 1969, and later moved back to Philadelphia to care for her mother and to be near her brother, the Rev. John Nevins, a Roman Catholic priest.[3]




Death

Natalie Nevins died on August 23, 2010 from complications from hip surgery at St. Mary's Medical Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.[1]

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Bill Phillips, American country music singer, died in plane crash he was 74,


Bill Phillips  was an American country music singer. His professional music career started with the Old Southern Jamboree on WMIL in Miami in 1955. He moved to Nashville in 1957 and worked with Johnny Wright and Kitty Wells until the late 1970s. His biggest recording was entitled "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" which peaked on the country charts at #6 on April 2, 1966 died in plane crash he was  74,. The Decca recording featured uncredited harmony vocals by the song's composer, a very young and then little known Dolly Parton.


(January 28, 1936, Canton, North Carolina – August 23, 2010)



William "Bill" Phillips, Sr. died on Aug. 9, 2010 after the plane on which he was a passenger crashed in remote southwest Alaska, near Dillingham.

Former senator Ted Stevens, whom Phillips had worked with in Washington, was also killed in the crash along with the pilot and two other passengers.




Discography

Albums

Year Album US Country Label
1966 Put It Off Until Tomorrow 11 Decca
1967 Bill Phillips Style 43
1968 Country Action —
1970 Little Boy Sad —
1980 When Can We Do This Again — Soundwaves

Singles

Year Single US Country Album
1958 "Lying Lips" — singles only
1959 "Foolish Me" —
"Sawmill" (w/ Mel Tillis) 27
1960 "Georgia Town Blues" (w/ Mel Tillis) 24
"All Night Long" —
"How Could You" —
1961 "Walk with Me Baby" —
"Love Never Dies" —
1962 "Yankee Trader" —
1963 "Lying to Be Together" — Put It Off Until Tomorrow
1964 "I Can Stand It (As Long as She Can)" 22
"Stop Me" 26
1965 "I Guess You Made a Fool Out of Me" —
"Wanted" — single only
"It Happens Everywhere" — Put It Off Until Tomorrow
1966 "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" 6
"The Company You Keep" 8 Bill Phillips Style
1967 "The Words I'm Gonna Have to Eat" 10
"I Learn Something New Everyday" 39 Country Action
"Love's Dead End" 25
1968 "I Talked About You Too" —
"I'm Thankful" — Little Boy Sad
1969 "I Only Regret" 54
"Little Boy Sad"A 10
1970 "She's Hungry Again" 43 singles only
"Same Old Story, Same Old Lie" 46
1971 "Big Rock Candy Mountain" 56 Little Boy Sad
1972 "I Am, I Said" 66 singles only
"(I Know) We'll Make It" —
1973 "Nothing's Too Good for My Woman" —
"It's Only Over Now and Then" 91
"Teach Your Children" —
1974 "I've Loved You All Over the World" —
1975 "Four Roses" —
1978 "Divorce Suit (You Were Named Co-Respondent)" 90 When Can We Do This Again
"I Love My Neighbor" — single only
1979 "You're Gonna Make a Cheater Out of Me" 89 When Can We Do This Again
"At the Moonlite" 85
"Memory Bound" —
1981 "Dance the Night Away" — singles only
1987 "One by One" —
  • A"Little Boy Sad" peaked at #17 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress (Soap), wife of Martin Short, died of natural causes she was , 58


Nancy Dolman  was a Canadian comic actress and singer died of  natural causes she was , 58. She was most notable for her recurring role as Annie Selig Tate on the ABC sitcom Soap. She also appeared in her husband Martin Short's 1985 cable television special Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas.



(September 26, 1951 — August 21, 2010)




Biography

The Toronto-born Dolman performed in the Canadian Rock Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar in the early 1970s, which travelled to Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and recorded an album with the group at MGM while they were in Los Angeles.[1][2]
Dolman's brother, screenwriter/director Bob Dolman (who served as a part of SCTV's writing team alongside Short), married their close friend and colleague Andrea Martin, in 1980. Dolman and Martin had two sons, Jack (born 1981) and Joe (born 1983), before divorcing.[2]
In 1980, she married fellow Canadian actor Martin Short, whom she had met during the run of the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell. Dolman was Gilda Radner's understudy. Short dated Radner first, then began dating Dolman in 1974. Dolman attended high school at York Mills Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and held a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario.[2]
Dolman retired from show business in 1985 to be a homemaker and full-time mother to her children. A profile of the couple appeared in the February 1987 issue of Vogue. The family made their home in Pacific Palisades, California. Dolman and Short also kept a vacation home in Lake Muskoka, Ontario.[3]

Children

Dolman had three children: Katherine Elizabeth (born 1983), Oliver Patrick (born 1986), a student at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, and Henry (born 1989), who also attends the University of Notre Dame.

Death

Dolman was suffering with cancer, according to a newspaper in 2007[4] and died on August 21, 2010, in Pacific Palisades, California.[5] The exact cause of death or type of cancer have not been made public.[6] According to the Los Angeles County Coroner, she died of natural causes.[4]

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Harold Dow, American television news correspondent (48 Hours), died from asthma.he was , 62


Harold Dow  was an American television news correspondent, journalist, and investigative reporter with CBS News died from asthma.he was , 62.


 (September 28, 1947 – August 21, 2010[1])









 Personal life

Harold Dow was married to Kathy Dow. They had three children together: Danica, Joelle, David.

Journalist credentials

Dow was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. He attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dow had been a correspondent for the CBS TV investigative news series 48 Hours since 1990, after having served as a contributor to the broadcast since its premiere on January 1988. He had been a contributing correspondent for 48 Hours on Crack Street, the critically acclaimed 1986 documentary that led to the single-topic weekly news magazine. Dow conducted the first network interview for 48 Hours with O. J. Simpson following the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Dow graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Prior to his work with 48 Hours, Dow was a correspondent for the CBS News magazine Street Stories (1992–93), and had reported for the CBS Evening News and CBS News Sunday Morning since the early 1970s.

Other accomplishments

Before joining CBS News, Dow had been an anchor and reporter at Theta Cable TV in Santa Monica, California. He was also a freelance reporter for KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, a news anchor for WPAT Radio in Paterson, New Jersey, and a reporter, co-anchor, and talk-show host for KETV-TV in Omaha, Nebraska. Dow was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Dow joined CBS News in 1972, first as a broadcast associate, then as a correspondent with their Los Angeles Bureau while with KCOP-TV. Dow reported on the return of POWs from Vietnam and the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, with whom he had an exclusive interview in December 1976.

Death

A resident of Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Dow died from complications of asthma on August 21, 2010 at a New Jersey hospital.[2]

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Christoph Schlingensief German director died of lung cancer.s at age 49

Christoph Maria Schlingensief  was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist, and author died of lung cancer.s at age 49. Initially working as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for renowned theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies. In the final years, he also worked for opera houses, and established himself as an artist.


(24 October 1960, Oberhausen – 21 August 2010, Berlin[1])





Career

As a young man he organized art events in the cellar of his parents house, and local artists such as Helge Schneider or Theo Jörgensmann performed in his early short films.
Schlingensief considered himself a 'provocatively thoughtful' artist. He created numerous controversial and provocative theatre pieces as well as films, his former mentor being filmmaker and media artist Werner Nekes. Already his debut feature film, the surreal, absurd experimental Tunguska - Die Kisten sind da! ("Tunguska - The boxes have arrived!", 1984) was well-received by critics.
One of his main works is the so-called 'Germany Trilogy' (Deutschlandtrilogie), which deals with three turning points in 20th century German history: the first movie Hundert Jahre Adolf Hitler ("A Hundred Years of Adolf Hitler", 1989) covers the last hours of Adolf Hitler, the second Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker ("The German Chainsaw-Massacre", 1990), depicts the German reunification of 1990 and shows a group of East-Germans who cross the border to visit West-Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic West German family with chainsaws, and the third Terror 2000 (1992) uses the theme of the 1970s Red Army Faction terror. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's film, Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977) is frequently considered as an attenuated remake of Schlingensief's pioneering Hitler film.
In 2004, at the invitation of Wolfgang and Katharina Wagner and to rave reviews, he staged Richard Wagner's Parsifal for the Bayreuth Festival. This production, in the first years conducted by Pierre Boulez, was revived in 2005 and 2006, but unlike other Bayreuth Festival stagings it was not filmed.
One of Schlingensief's central tactics was to call politicians' bluff in an attempt to reveal the inanities of their "responsible" discourse, a tactic he called "playing something through to its end". This strategy was most notable in his work Please Love Austria (alternately named Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container) at the time of the FPO and OVP coalition in Austria, a work which attracted international support, a media frenzy and countless debates about art practice.
Schlingensief also directed a version of Hamlet, subtitled, This is your Family, Nazi-line, which premiered in Switzerland, the so-called neutral territory equated with the Denmark of the opening line in Shakespeare's play where there is something foul afoot. Events around the piece questioned and attacked Switzerland's 'neutrality' in the face of growing racism and extreme right wing movements. It also involved former members of Neo Nazi groups, allowing them to play out their own weaknesses in the terms of the characters in the drama, and led to him founding a centre for former members to "de-brief".
Schlingensief's work covered a variety of media, including installation and the ubiquitous 'talk show' and has in many cases led to audience members leaving the theatre space with Schlingensief and his colleagues to take part in events such as Passion Impossible, Wake Up Call for Germany 1997 or Chance 2000, Vote for Yourself in which he formed his own party where anyone could become a candidate themselves in the run up to the federal election of 1998 in Germany. With his demands for people to "prove they exist" in an age of total TV coverage and "act, act, act" in the sense of becoming active not 'actors', his work could be considered a direct legacy of Bertolt Brecht, as it demands involvement as opposed to passivity and merely looking on as is the case in traditional text-based theatre. In an age of extreme media fatigue, his was a fresh voice albeit and undisputedly containing echoes of the past, often humorous and subversive yet never cynical. His influences included Joseph Beuys and his idea of social sculpture, and artists Allan Kaprow and Dieter Roth.
In his latest productions, such as the fluxus oratorio Church of Fear and the ready made opera Mea culpa, he staged his own cancer experience, and related it to his first 'stage experience' as a young altar boy. In this time he started his most ambitious project: building an opera house in the heart of the African savannah, in Burkina Faso. In 2010 he was appointed to design the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011.

Death
Schlingensief died of lung cancer on August 21, 2010 in Berlin, Germany at age 49.[2] In a note to his death in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Literature Nobel Prize Laureate Elfriede Jelinek wrote: "Schlingensief was one of the greatest artists who ever lived. I always thought one like him can not die. It is as if life itself would be dead. He was not really a stage director (in spite of Bayreuth and Parsifal), he was everything: he was the artist as such. He has coined a new genre that has been removed from each classification. There will be nobody like him."[3]

Projects

1990s

  • 1990–1993 he directed a series of films known as the Germany-trilogy.
  • 1993 he directed his first stage piece "100 Years of CDU " at the Volksbühne Berlin
  • 1994 Kuhnen "94, Bring Me the Head of Adolf Hitler! at the Volksbühne Berlin
  • 1996 Director of the movie United Trash
  • 1996 Rocky Dutschke at the Volksbühne Berlin
  • 1997 My Felt, My Fat, My Hare, 48 Hours Survival for Germany (Dokumenta X, Kassel)
  • 1997 Passion Impossible, Wake Up Call For Germany, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Station Mission for the Homeless
  • 1998 Chance 2000, an Election Circus, Prater Garden, Berlin and other locations nationwide
  • 1999 Freakstars 3000 at the Volksbühne Berlin

2000s


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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Jack Horkheimer American public television host (Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer), executive director of Miami Planetarium, died from respiratory ailment

Jack Horkheimer, born Foley Arthur Horkheimer , was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium died from respiratory ailment. He was best known for his astronomy show Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer, which started airing on PBS on November 4, 1976.[1]


(June 11, 1938 – August 20, 2010)


Early life

Jack Horkheimer was born in 1938 to a wealthy family in Randolph, Wisconsin.[2][3] His father owned a publishing firm and was the mayor of Randolph, Wisconsin for 24 years.[4][5] Horkheimer started his show business career in 1953 at the age of 15 when he hosted a radio show on WBEV. In 1956, he graduated from Campion Jesuit High School.[6]
During the summers away from college, he travelled the country playing jazz on the piano and organ under the name "Horky". His agents at the Artists Corporation of America ended up giving him the stage name "Jack Foley". He later changed this to "Jack Foley Horkheimer". He graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor of science degree in 1963 as a distinguished scholar.[1][5]
He moved to Miami, Florida in 1964 for health reasons and began volunteering at the Miami Science Museum planetarium. He later became its director in 1973.[5][7]

Career

Horkheimer started his astronomy career in 1964, when he was 26, after he moved to Miami and met astronomer Arthur Smith. Smith was the president of the Miami Museum of Science and the chief of the Southern Cross Astronomical Society.[4][5] Horkheimer started volunteering at planetarium writing shows and was later offered a position with the museum.[7]
Smith asked Horkheimer to run the Miami Space Transit Planetarium when it opened in 1966. Horkheimer's shows were successful and the planetarium went from losing money to becoming profitable. Horkheimer worked his way up to become the planetarium's educational director and eventually the executive director.[1][5]
Horkheimer changed the planetarium show from a science lecture to a multimedia event including music, lights and narration. He created the Child of the Universe show for the planetarium in 1972, which became famous and used in other planetariums across the country.[5] Sally Jessy Raphael portrayed the voice of the solar system in this show. The show won an international award from the society of European astronomers in 1976. Horkheimer became the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium in 1973 and stayed there for 35 years until his retirement in 2008.[2][5]

Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer

Jack Horkheimer was probably best known for his naked-eye astronomy television show Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler, which started in 1976 and was broadcast nationally in 1985. Created, produced and written by Horkheimer, the show changed its name to Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer in 1997 because Internet searches were producing results for the adult magazine Hustler.

[edit] Media appearances

Horkheimer was known nationally for his commentaries about "astronomical events."[8] He was a science commentator for local Miami news station. starting in 1973.[1] In 1986, he co-organized an event for viewing Halley's Comet, traveling around the world aboard the supersonic airliner Concorde. He appeared on CNN several times, narrating solar eclipses and even hosted shows on Cartoon Network.[3]

[edit] Health issues

Horkheimer was born with a congenital degenerative lung disease known as bronchiectasis and, as a result, suffered from chronic pain.[4] His ailment was not diagnosed until he was 18 years old.[5] During this time, he suffered from radiation sickness and lost his hair as the result of medical X-Ray treatments. In 1957, he had to leave the Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts because it was suspected that he had tuberculosis.[1] His health issues caused him to move to Miami in 1964 for the humid warm climate.[4]
Horkheimer had been close to death on several occasions because of his health issues.[1] As a result, he had prepared a grave site next to his parents. He also had a tombstone prepared and wrote his own epitaph, which reads;[3]
"Keep Looking Up" was my life's admonition;
I can do little else in my present position.

[edit] Death

Horkheimer died at his Florida home on the morning of August 20, 2010 at the age of 72.[4] His death was related to the respiratory ailment that he suffered from since childhood.[5]
Horkheimer had never been married and did not have any children. His death was confirmed by his niece, Kathy, and Tony Lima, marketing vice president for the Miami Science Museum, Horkheimer's employer.[4] An email circulated among the museum's staff, stated that they were "very saddened to have just learned that our resident Star Gazer, Jack Horkheimer, passed away today after being ill for quite some time."[9]

[edit] Awards and honors

Jack Horkheimer received many awards during his lifetime. These are some of the more major awards and honors he received.[1][10]

[edit] Publications

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